Month: January 2007

  • The edge of the future is a Netscape

    Eric Berlin says more eloquently than I did in June that the Netscape dreamed up by Jason Calacanis — a hybrid between traditional media news sites and the social news approach of Digg/Reddit/Techmeme — may be the “Future of News.” Ironic, one of the Internet’s oldest consumer sites, has become the “future of news.” That’s…

  • Blogging on Blogging

    Nielsen//NetRatings said Wednesday the number of unique visitors to blog pages within the Top 10 online newspapers was up 210 percent in December from a year ago, while overall readership grew by only 9 percent. “As Web 2.0 becomes a predominant online consumer model, traditional publishers are adopting interactive forums like blogs. It makes perfect…

  • Tennessee River from Lakeshore Greenway

    I always like this view of the Tennessee River from atop the hill at the Lakeshore Greenway. Today the temperature was 66 when this was taken, but there was a good breeze (wind gusts of 25 mph forecast) and you can see the gray line of a band of clouds moving in. By Wednesday, the…